This is my illegal Bay Area version of a well-meaning yet financially-privileged article called “How To Live Near Your Friends”. The sticky part of this article is that it assumes a considerable number of people in your social circle have (a) spare rooms (b) the finances to move to a neighborhood of their choice , which is often not possible in the San Francisco Bay Area’s utterly unsustainable horror show of a housing market, even with pretty decent income. If it were that easy to live near friends, we’d all have done it already.
Here’s how renters do it in the Bay.